Book ID: CBB000358393

The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos (2000)

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Livio, Mario (Author)


Wiley Publishing
Publication date: 2000
Language: English


Publication Date: 2000
Physical Details: xiv + 274 pp.; ill.; index

Description Popular history of modern cosmology.


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Review Regt, Henk W. de (2002) Review of "The Accelerating Universe: Infinite Expansion, the Cosmological Constant, and the Beauty of the Cosmos". International Studies in the Philosophy of Science (p. 95). unapi

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Benetti, Stefano
Clark, David H.
Clark, Matthew D. H.
Clavelin, Maurice
Earman, John S.
Ellis, George F. R.
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